Accounts Quote by Peter Lynch

A good portfolio is more than a long list of good stocks and bonds. It is a balanced whole, providing the investor with protections…

— Harry Markowitz

Plenty of funds have fine long-term returns despite being tax-inefficient and generally costly. But a dirty secret is this: Average, no-load fund investors do…

— Kenneth Fisher

In choosing a portfolio, investors should seek broad diversification, Further, they should understand that equities--and corporate bonds also--involve risk; that markets inevitably fluctuate; and…

— Harry Markowitz

Both cheap value stocks and more glamorous growth stocks can work well in a portfolio - if done right.

— Kenneth Fisher

In investing, you get what you don't pay for. Costs matter. So intelligent investors will use low-cost index funds to build a diversified portfolio…

— John C. Bogle

If you hope to have more money tomorrow than you have today, you've got to put a chunk of your assets into stocks. Sooner…

— Peter Lynch

For all your long-term investments, such as retirement accounts that you won't touch for at least ten years, you need a mix of stocks…

— Suze Orman

The true secret of success in the investment and speculative world is not so much which good securities to buy, but rather which investments…

— Morton Shulman

Investors... can't pick stocks that are better than average. Stocks are a good thing to own over time. There's only two things you can…

— Warren Buffett

We can extrapolate from the study that for the long term individual investor who maintains a consistent asset allocation and leans toward index funds,…

— Roger G. Ibbotson

Short-term performance envy causes many of the shortcomings that lock most investors into a perpetual cycle of underachievement. Watch your competitors not out of…

— Seth Klarman

It's quite clear that stocks are cheaper than bonds. I can't imagine anybody having bonds in their portfolio when they can own equities, a…

— Warren Buffett